The bill proposes euthanasia be open to people with terminal illness likely to cause death within 12 months, or to people with an irreversible physical or mental condition that renders their life unbearable - by their own assessment.

Therefore anyone in New Zealand who has a terminal illness that may cause their death within 12 monthsor anyone whopersonally assessesthat their physical ormentalcondition is unbearable would qualify for euthanasia.

This means that anyone with a terminal or chronic condition qualifies to be lethally injected, based on their own personal assessment, even if they have chronic depression or mental illness.

Clearly this bill will enable people to subtly pressure people with physical or mental disabilities, who are not otherwise dying, to die by lethal injection in New Zealand.

Street then is reported to state:

"Application for children with terminal illness was a bridge too far in my view at this time. That might be something that may happen in the future, but not now."

This means that she isn't ready to propose euthanasia for children with disabilities yet, but once society begins to deem their lives to be not worth living, then she will consider it.

The Netherlands first legalized euthanasia in 2001 for competent people, it has now approved euthanasia for newborns with disabilities and people with dementia.

It is interesting that Street suggested that:

"I feel a little aggrieved when people say this bill will be the start of a slippery slope where we will just dispose of everybody who is inconvenient for society. It's not true. It is about people having the choice as to when they end their lives."

The euthanasia lobby always sell their ideology under the guise of choice and they ignore the abuses that occur when others are given the right in law to cause death.

When euthanasia was legalized in Belgium in 2002, the euthanasia lobby also claimed that it was an issue of choice.